Robert Marmion

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Hugh de Say, son and heir of Hugh by Lucy de Clifford. He was keeper of Norton Castle, in what is now co. Radnor, and fought under Richard I in Normandy in 1194. In 1195 he was in charge of the castle of Bleddfa in the March, now co. Radnor. In 1196 he and Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore were defeated near Radnor by the Welsh prince Rhys.

Hugh de Say married Mabel, daughter of Robert Marmion. He was assessed to the third scutage of the army in Normandy in 1196, and seems to have been living in the early part of 1197, but died s.p.m., before Michaelmas that year. His widow Mabel by Easter 1201 was married to Reynold [---]. She was dead before Michaelmas 1210.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, p. 258

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert Marmion, son and heir. All the land of Roger his grandfather and Robert his father was restored to him by Stephen. In 1155 he obtained from Henry ll a charter of freewarren in Warwickshire, especially at Tamworth, as his ancestors had had it in the time of Henry I, and after 1170 he had from King Henry-i.e. the eldest son of Henry II-a charter of free warren in all his land of Lindsey. In 1166 he was holding over 16 knights' fees. He granted Avon and Ditchampton, Wilts, and the honour of Llanstephan, co. Carmarthen, which had belonged to Roger his grandfather, to his uncle Geoffrey, in exchange for the latter's right in Winteringliam and Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, and in the fee of Manasser Marmion. He granted the church of Checkenden, co. Oxford, to Coventry Priory, circa I170-75, in satisfaction of the injuries done to that house by his father; and, circa 1175-80, he granted a third part of Checkenden to Geoffrey Marmion, whose relationship is not specified. He began the foundation of Barbery Abbey in Normandy.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, pp. 508-509, Vol. XIV, p. 468

• Web Reference.
Robert Marmion on Wikipedia. Robert Marmion was married twice, first, to Matilda de Beauchamp, by whom he had a son, Robert the Elder, and two daughters; secondly, to Philippa, by whom he had four sons.

Robert married Maud de Beauchamp, daughter of Sir William de Beauchamp Knight and Maud de Braose, about 1153. (Maud de Beauchamp was born about 1139 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.)